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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

So.

Hey everybody. This is john (the hubby of Jen) taking on today's post since Jen is...um...busy. Yeah. So how 'bout that post yesterday, huh? It's like one minute everything's all hunky-dory, and then next thing I know Jen's threatening to strike over something to do with a Disney font. Last I saw, she was on the couch in her memory foam slippers with a pint of Chunky Monkey and watching SGA reruns. I believe her exact words to me were, "YOU write it!!!" And I see the facial tic is back. Greeeaaat.

Which brings us to Earth Day!!! (Wait. Why are we still doing Earth Day cakes? It was like a week ago. *sigh*) Earth Day!!! Who doesn't love cake for their Earth Day? I thought it would be hard to find Earth Day cakes but it turns out those kooky decorators are still making them!

Our first cake was actually made for some guy named Scopios. I mean, what a crazy name, right? But this guy must really love Earth Day 'cause someone got him a cake.

Too bad this decorator doesn't know how to spell!*

And how about this next one?

Hey Tori Beth! Earth Day's been around for a long time ya know. What, were you born, like, a year ago?

And finally, here's the last one, which is why it's called finally.

Who else thinks we should take the airbrush out of the hands of the bakers? Who's with me?!?! You know. 'Cause the meat folks could put them to better use. For ham glazes. And signs.

So that's my post. Hopefully Jen will be back soon, although I just heard her tell the cat "Spaceship Earth is IN Epcot" between mouthfuls.

Katie V., Chelle, & Sarah A., Wreck On!

*See, what I did here is I took the "B" out of the word "Birthday" to make it sound like "Earth Day" even thought that is clearly not what the cake was supposed to say. I did this because there were almost no actual Earth Day cakes submitted, which means that either a) they were all fantastic, b) there were none made, or c) everybody has thrown their batteries into a lake and, thusly, nobody has a working camera. Thank you and good night!

Awwwww Jen!!! We love you! I wasn't able to check CW yesterday *gasp* but I caught up today....I agree with the others who say people need to do their research. (((HUGS))) Jen......COME BACK TO US!!!!!!!

Hey OK just one thing. You know you (John) can make a seperate account right and then JOIN this blog as a co-author so whenever you are forced to- I mean you kindly take the task of posting an entry you won't need to explain who you are because it'll say "Posted by John" instead of "Posted by Jen" and all shall be simpler in the world and we can focus on the cakes and not the identity of the person providing us with said cakes... not that I don't like your introductions. They're fine. John's a pretty cool name. Not as cool as Scopios but then again what is?

wow. first it's the epcot ridiculousness (how hard is it to read the comments people???) and now some of you are actually NOT noticing that john did this post on PURPOSE?? oy! personally, i thought it was hilarious! clever john, very clever:) i didn't realize you had done it until the second cake. where is everyone's sense of humor???

Ok hello, Did you guys not read the whole post? If you did you would notice this excerpt:

"See, what I did here is I took the "B" out of the word "Birthday" to make it sound like "Earth Day" even thought that is clearly not what the cake was supposed to say. I did this because there were almost no actual Earth Day cakes submitted..."

He did it on purpose.

Lots of of hugs Jen and John! I read yesterday's post, but not the comments. I had know idea people were that ignorant about Space Ship Earth. To those who don't know, Space Ship Earth is to Epcot what Cinderella's Castle is to the Magic Kingdom. (Not to be confused with Sleeping Beauty's Castile at Disneyland.)

Anonymous saidI think people should be required to read comments before making one. I can't believe the sheer number of people who said the SAME THING over and over yesterday!Part of the reason for that is that comments are held for approval, so people might make a duplicate comment before the previous comment gets posted.

We used to play Mortal Kombat together. That was until he kept impaling we with a knife-on-a-rope and telling me to "get over here". That guy was such a jerk. I can't believe someone got him a cake. e_e

I love the site- and I hate that everyone feels the need to 'correct' you about the spaceship earth. I didn't realize that was it at all! I thought it was a golf ball! (I didn't notice the font.)Seriously though, the fake irthday cakes are hilarious!

Sorry for the haters- I guess you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't! :)

You know what I woke up to on "irthday"? My kids screaming and punching each other and rolling around on the floor, arguing over whether or not to turn on any lights in honor of the day. I wish *I* had been given an "irthday" cake instead!

Ahhhhh...Ben & Jerry's--good choice! Have you tried the "Yes, Pecan" flavor yet? Come to Vt. and take the factory tour sometime--free samples! I don't blame Jen one tiny whit for calling in too WELL to deal with us; no one could PAY me enough to put up with the INSANITY she has to, some days...I-YI-YI!!Give her my best wishes for a speedy second wind, and John? Look on the bright side--at least the foam slippers are sufficing - no need for foam walls.

I kind of wonder if "Scopios" is actually supposed to be "ScoRpios" (minus the capital, of course); you know, as a generic, "there are too many of you having a birthday to fit all your names on this little cake I bought, so I'm generalizing" type thing.

man. Please tell Jen that (as a Disney-loving Floridian who has maybe been to EPCOT too many times) I immediately knew what the hell she meant! also, y'know, if you're going to take a day off, SGA sounds like a fantastic way to spend it. so hopefully that will all work out well for her anyway.

I have not seen Earth Day cakes in my grocery stores. I did see one of those awful shaggy dog made of icing cakes, though. D:

There's really nothing I wanted to say that hasn't been covered by others, but when I saw the word verification was 'eptol' I couldn't resist.Do you take eptol bismol for a Disney cake wreck upset stomach?

If this were my blog, I think I would have run for the hills screaming (as illustrated at 00:40 of this little SFW clip =) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXAJS7n6Tb4) after reading yesterday's comments. Mine were in that group so...yeah. =D Anyway.

Although your Photoshop skills are...distinctive, John...gluing cookies on the side of a cake--a misspelled cake, no less!--isn't my idea of appetizing. The lettering on the last one is cute, in a way, but I detest airbrushed color on a cake almost as much as I detest the whipped cream frosting it's usually on.So yes, this was a post in the finest Wreckiest tradition!

ATTENTION READERS: Read the WHOLE post before you make uninformed comments. Jen clearly referenced "Spaceship Earth" in her post yesterday and John CLEARLY said today that he edited the photos to fit the "Earth Day" theme.

I thought the "Spaceship Earth" bit was a pretty good pun - but then again, I actually knew it was called Spaceship Earth (it's only one of my favorite rides). G'derr. Stupid people. Do your homework before you try to correct someone else.

Can anyone bake a cake shaped like a hug for poor Jen? As a Florida born native I just cringed with every "enlightening" yet unresearched reply about the big silver ball. I guess it could have been worse, it could have been a Captain EO cake, with everyone telling you NOOO! THAT'S MJ!

SGA! SGA! Ok Jen, Just imagine Joe Flannigan popping out of that accursed fuzzy golfball with cake crumbs in his cute sticky uppity hair and telling all of the grumblers to shut up in his annoyed with Rodney voice.

The comments are almost as funny as the actual post. Nice job on irth Day. I'm thinking it could catch on and replace the other Earth Day. Think how much could be saved if we celebrated with one less letter.

Sadly, I noticed this about the readers a month or so ago when a commenter asked what a CCC was, and I jumped in and answered in a comment, and lo and behold, someone asked again about what in the world is a CCC not ten comments after.

I LOVE the comments, as they are entertaining, and most see stuff I missed. But, thank you, John for teaching folks oh, so gently, with a great and funny post! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

And can I ask for forgiveness ahead of time when we misspell and use bad grammar??

bahahahahaa omg this cracked me up. i can't believe all the people so quickly pointed out that it was EPCOT and how OBVIOUS it was with the Disney Font even.. *HIGH FIVE*lmao

i love it cuz Jen plainly wrote it's name out (spaceship earth).. and btw.. i went on there recently cuz we went to Florida for new years.. and that space ride thingie in there is pretty damn cool. yep. true story. but people were OH-so-informed enough to point out that "oh.. that's Epcot".. but clearly had no idea what the hell that big space ball thingie was actually called to completely not even notice that she wrote it plain as day right underneath it.

I was sorely tempted to send in a scan of the Walmart newspaper insert which featured a cake with a paper doll as the "topper". The paper doll's skirt was folded like a fan and she was lying down on the job. I wonder if Walmart inserts are the same all over the country?

maybe we could petition blogger to replace the word verification with something more like 'basic intelligence verification' or 'reading comprehension verification'... Of course that would take away the fun of having a 'comments wrecks' blog, but might help a bit with retaining the sanity...

this message is for Jen, so, John, please go away.ahh, nothing better than some Stargate Atlantis and the hotness that is Joe Flanigan (and his hair), and the hypnotic hands of David Hewlett to escape all the crap that lands on you on the bad days. sigh. ok, i think i have just talked myself into a couple of episodes of season 4. cheer up! season 5 dvds comes out this summer. mine is on pre-order at Amazon. cant wait.

(pssst. if the ice cream isnt doing it for you, have you seen the infamous beach photos?)

Okay... I am going to come clean. I was one of THOSE people that commented on it being Epcot, but at least let me defend myself. 1. I did not know what Spaceship Earth was.2. I wasn't "correcting" Jen, from the caption, I thought she was guessing...Usually I can pick up on her jokes...I guess I was a little slow that morning.3. Even though my comment showed up as around the 25th, when I went on there were zero comments made.

Sooo..at least for myself, I thought I was being helpful (like how we all were trying to figure out the smoking lamb). I apologize and Jen, this is the best website ever!!! You rock!!

Jen,you should make a rule:NO DUMMIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO POST COMMENTS!!Mr/Mrs Anonymous who posted at 10:39 A.M.-he did it on purpose!! If you had read the whole post you MIGHT have figured that out! grr..some people...*shaking head furiously back and forth*

You guys are awesome. Jen and I know that ya'll were just being helpful and it was totally our fault for not moderating comments quickly enough. (Side note: We really do have to moderate comments. Trust me. Most of you wouldn't like what the trolls write.)

So please, continue to be part of the comments board. Days like yesterday keep it interesting.

Re the couple of comments referring to the "crazy cat lady" scenario: it's a myth! There's nothing crazy about having cats around.Cats have a very calming, soothing influence on the nerves, and have even been shown to lower blood pressure.My prescription: cats ala mode.

Hey wow you DO have a user for yourself John (Hubby of Jen). I should've checked that before commenting (although it has been relevant in the past! I'm just a bit slow to mention it :P) OK well have a nice day.

As someone who uses Photoshop every day as part of my job, let me just explain to you ... very slowly ... that it takes less than five minutes with the program to learn that there's this nifty little tool called the Clone Stamp that would not only be easier to use than cutting out and enlarging/moving a circle, but would also produce results so believable that you'd be tempted to call the "wreckmaker" up yourself and tell her what for.

I have faith in him that, had he wanted you to believe these were actual wrecks while photoshopping them, he could have made them at least mostly convincing.

1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs1 to move it to the Lighting section2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs5 to flame the spell checkers3 to correct spelling/grammar flames6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ... another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp"15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light bulb" is perfectly correct19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL's3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too"5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"13 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs"1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.

oh, goodness. I am very discouraged by stupid people. I love the "irthday" joke and the photoshopping, but some of these comments are killing me....

1)the one for the one year old is a phony.. looks like they photoshop/cut n pasted the upper righthand corner of the cake over the B in birthday. Jen and john, you guys need to screen better, or your site will lose it's cred.

2)That second cake looks digitally edited to remove the "B"

john-- I am sorry your humor was lost on people. isn't it rough to be called out by people who are wrong(jen agrees, i know)? Funny that they only noticed the "problem" with one cake. sheesh!

Only because I do a lot of this for side work, I noticed that the candle that sits where the 'B' should be is actually a clone stamp of the red candle in the upper right corner (Look hoe the counter is in the middle of the cake in a nice perfect semi circle)

Not to say it isn't still a wreck, but the misspelling is more photo editing than mistake I think.

Wooow, I feel like writing a song "Where have all the posts gone?" I was just reading the FAQ which has the question on EPCOT? So now I am reminded again how the craziness ensued. I find it interesting that no comments were deleted from the previous days post. I only hope that none of the hilarity was deleted. Thanks Jon, and Jen for such a great blog, keep going strong 'cuz you never know when there might be another EPCOT right around the corner.

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